Snowsports
By Jonathan Mandl, Snowsports Technical Director
Athletes + volunteers = Snowsports racing
This year concludes the Radford Snowsports career of Boys' Team Captain Lachlan Herring. It’s been a fine journey from Division 5 to Division 1!
Lachlan's time on Interschools racecourses representing Radford has only been matched by his father Andrew's time, supporting events as a volunteer course official at events. Thank you, Lachlan and Andrew – a winning combination!
The team is looking forward to seeing you both at the Straight Line ACT Schools Cup on 14 August and the Australian Interschools Championships in early September to round out your final year!
Snowsports athletes inspired by AUS Olympians
Athletes at our recent Performance Camp at Sponars Chalet welcomed Snowboard Cross Olympian, Adam Lambert, to speak about his experiences competing at World Cup and Olympic events, and his day-to-day training regime as an elite athlete. Adam live-narrated his World Cup Silver-winning run, and his Beijing Olympics 2022 quarter-final to a hushed audience of students and guests, followed by Olympian Q&A and autographing of helmets for good luck!
In another brush with fame, at last week's ACT & Regional NSW Interschools Championships Ski Cross event, a huge highlight was seeing four-time Olympian Sami Kennedy-Sim chatting freely with our athletes at top of the Division 1 and 2 event course. It seems that Girls' Team Captain Katherine Hinchcliffe took advantage of a few race-tips from Sami before her two quick runs on the course!
Radford Snowsports athletes shine at Regional Interschools Championships!
Our Team enjoyed a highly successful SUBARU ACT & Regional NSW Championships after two years of forced abeyance due to COVID-19 cancellations in 2020 & 2021.
Finally, our athletes were able to prove their skills and competitiveness in all disciplines, returning many exceptional individual and team results and new personal bests from every member of the team.
Outstanding podium highlights included:
Division 1 Male Alpine Giant Slalom
Outright 1st place: Finlay Barlow
Team 1st: Finlay Barlow, Lachlan Herring (4th), Alexander Schofield, Jake Smith
Team 3rd: Campbell Kruger, William Seddon, Joshua Kluth, Kynan Swan
Division 1 Male Ski Cross
Team 1st: Jake Smith (4th), Lachlan Herring, Finlay Barlow
Team 2nd: Campbell Kruger, Alexander Schofield, William Seddon
Division 5 Female Alpine Giant Slalom
4th place: Tahlia Smith
Our regional championships (18-22 July) were part of 15 days of competition involving 5,755 event entries (11,510 starts) from 2,722 students across 316 schools over three Australian resorts. Steve Cooper from Snow Australia noted ‘it was a thunderous and highly successful return of on-snow competition for school-aged competitors in NSW, ACT, QLD, and South Australia’.
We thank the untiring efforts of our dedicated Radford staff and especially our families supplying course official volunteers helping to make the Championships a safe and rewarding experience for our young athletes. Without our collective support, these events simply cannot run.
Snow Australia Interschools are currently finalising all invitations for ACT & Regional NSW athletes to attend the Australian Interschools Championships over 6–11 September. These will be released online shortly (https://www.interschools.com.au/home/)
The team’s next campaign is the Straight Line ACT Schools Cup on Sunday 14 August where all of our recreational skiers and snowboarders at the College can join our team for their first race experience on the gentle slope of Perisher’s front valley giant slalom racecourse. Registration details will soon be announced on the Snowsports Nexus page.
RESULTS: ACT Regional NSW Interschools Championships: 18–22 July 2022
Division 1 Male Alpine Giant Slalom Finlay Barlow 33.78 (1) Lachlan Herring 34.22 (4) Alexander Schofield 34.49 (5) Campbell Kruger 34.67 (6) Jake Smith 34.71 (7) William Seddon 36.99 (18) Joshua Kluth 38.71 (25) Kynan Swan 40.16 (30) |
Division 2 Male Alpine Giant Slalom Euan Greig 31.01 (19) Sunny Smith 32.22 (27) Marley Buchanan 32.65 (29) Xavier Zerger 33.62 (33) Bailey Purvis-Smith 37.16 (44) |
Division 1 Female Alpine Giant Slalom Katherine Hinchcliffe 38.02 (19) |
Division 2 Female Alpine Giant Slalom Emily Hinchcliffe 29.63 (12) Amber Smith 29.69 (13) Sophie Wilson 32.16 (28) |
Division 3 Male Alpine Giant Slalom Darcy Barlow 28.17 (5) Jude Barlin 31.55 (25) Connor Kruger 33.14 (35) Rahul Mishra 37.70 (53) |
Division 3 Female Alpine Giant Slalom Amelia Grant 31.32 (20*) Charlie Lee 31.41 (24) Ava Rath 33.23 (35) |
Division 4 Male Alpine Giant Slalom Lincoln Lee 36.50 (32) Zachary Zhao 45.94 (63) |
Division 4 Female Alpine Giant Slalom Amelie Smith 39.81 (24) |
Division 5 Female Alpine Giant Slalom Tahlia Smith 35.60 (4) |
Division 1 Female Ski Cross Katherine Hinchcliffe 34.30 (28) |
Division 1 Male Ski Cross Jake Smith 28.91 (4) Campbell Kruger 29.08 (5) Alexander Schofield 29.13 (6) Lachlan Herring 29.22 (7) Finlay Barlow 29.35 (8) Finn Zentelis-Wilde 29.47 (10) William Seddon 30.07 (15) Kynan Swan 31.10 (21) Terry Yang 36.01 (38) |
Division 2 Male Ski Cross Euan Greig 31.25 (17) Marley Buchanan 33.76 (32) Sunny Smith 34.58 (36) Bailey Purvis-Smith 36.59 (42) Xavier Zerger 36.79 (45) |
Division 2 Female Ski Cross Amber Smith 30.19 (14*) Emily Hinchcliffe 32.67 (35) |
Division 3 Female Ski Cross Charlie Lee 33.18 (28) Ava Rath 33.24 (30) |
Division 3 Male Ski Cross Darcy Barlow 31.73 (17*) Connor Kruger 33.35 (27) Jude Barlin 33.23 (25) Rahul Mishra 37.63 (55) Tom Georgalis 38.21 (56) |
Division 4 Male Ski Cross Lincoln Lee 37.57 (50)
Amelie Smith 36.61 (22) Division 5 Female Ski Cross Tahlia Smith 24.83 (9) |
Division 2 Male Snowboard Giant Slalom Bailey Purvis-Smith 37.35 (29) Finlay Stewart 36.30 (26) |
Division 2 Female Snowboard Giant Slalom Taylor Barton 36.18 (24) |
Division 3 Female Snowboard Giant Slalom Charlie Lee 33.08 (10) |
Division 4 Male Snowboard Giant Slalom Lincoln Lee 36.97 (14) |
Division 2 Male Snowboard Cross Finlay Stewart 37.89 (23) Bailey Purvis-Smith 40.20 (32) |
Division 3 Male Snowboard Cross Jack Appaneal 36.36 (18) |
Division 3 Female Snowboard Cross Charlie Lee 44.73 (22) |
Division 4 Male Snowboard Cross Lincoln Lee 30.39 (26) |
Division 3 Male Moguls Tom Georgalis 12.30 (13) |